Here's an experiment: take a small plastic tote, and fill it with a jumble of things, like Legos, axles, wheels, batteries and other various parts. Add a teacher and mix in about two dozen students.

And start watching where you walk.Little powered robotic vehicles will soon be moving about everywhere, followed by budding mechanical engineers.It was all part of a Robotics Camp, held at the Tamaqua Elementary School this week, sponsored by Tamaqua's Blue Raider Foundation and supported by Penn State University's Hazleton campus.This was the second year for the Robotics Camp at Tamaqua, taught both years by Mark Reed, who teaches fifth grade at Heights Terrace School in Hazelton.